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Subject: Re: Next filter - SSM 2040 clone

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...
Date: 1999-08-12

>If you hate VC Q so much, why do it? They're your modules!
>
>
>But if it's a significant trade-off in terms of quality, I don't want it,
>and quite likely others don't either.
>

Well, in 99% of filters, VC Q adds a DC offset from the output back to
the input. This in turn "muddies" up the sound.

However, in this particular filter topology, we use a "trick" because I have
both NPN and PNP matched pairs available. So hopefully, there will not
be this effect.

The prototype filter will be built in mid-Sept. I'll post some MP3 as soon
as it is all checked out.

And per Rocket, yes you can overdrive the snot out of it.

Paul S.